Some great data here on today’s flatbed truckload market. What do you think? Is this accurate?
DAT is showing 100 loads available per truck in March 
Nice info
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They are going to start overloading them so much the arches will go down instead of up.
I am seriously thinking about having veneer but logs shipped by barge on the Ohio river, and then train the rest of the haul? It would take cooperation between grade yards, because of the amount needed to make it worth while.
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DAT…what they do not tell you…dig deeper. You are showing all trucks data. There is a subset, flatbeds, which is more applicable to lumber. Is it accurate? As the day progresses brokers and shippers repost the same loads so they will reappear new the top of the lists at truck stops. That said, I use it to show trends. Reposting the same loads raises the
Load to Truck Ratio however not also infers more urgency and more competitiveness for trucks. Flat bed LTR is in sync with the lumber market. May gauge is when LTR is above 80, shipments are delayed. Below 20 and trucks can easily handle shipments.
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